There are many URLs and pointers to institutions involved in these types of digital repositories.

The section on standards and interoperability is short yet speaks volumes. It says: (with my emphasis)

Repositories only help people share digital resources where both the repositories and the resources comply with international open standards. In terms of repositories, the key interoperability standard is the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, OAI-PMH, which enables metadata to be exchanged reliably. In terms of digital resources, the standards vary according to the domain, but include: Dublin Core and MARC for bibliographic data; IMS Learning Objective Metadata; and ISO 19115 for geospatial data. Packaging standards exist to create compound digital objects, integrating both files and metadata, including METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard, IMS Content Packaging, and the MPEG 21 DIDL (Digital Item Declaration Language).

I really like that first sentence. Yes...a good document to read or even skim.

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Jill Hurst-Wahl is an associate professor of practice in the Syracuse University School of Information Studies. She was the director its M.S. in Library and Information Science program (2012-2017). She is a member of the USNY Technology Policy and Practice Council (2009-president) and the OCPL Board of Trustees (2016-present). A former corporate librarian, Jill has always been an advocate for expanding the career opportunities for LIS graduates. Her interests include innovation, brainstorming, copyright, digitization, and social media.

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